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You’d walk right by a piping plover if it stayed perfectly still. The birds are tiny, perhaps the size of a sparrow, and colored to blend in with the sand and tidal mud flats they call home. Protect ...

Thanks to their sand-colored plumage and stop-and-go dashes across dunes, piping plovers are usually identified by their bell-like whistles before they're seen. But these birds' camouflage techniques ...

Michael Madigan, once the nation’s longest-serving state legislative leader, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison on federal bribery and wire fraud convictions, thus bringing to a ...

Two women were arrested by ICE agents on Friday in front of a Chicago elementary school near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus on the West Side. Several officers, some of them wearing face ...

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass. A neighbor, who wished only to be called by her first name, shared cell ...

Chicago ensured that a remarkable tradition continues with their first confirmed dates of 2026. They have toured every year since the group was founded in the late '60s. Keyboardist Robert Lamm, ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, should be jailed for failing to defend U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

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A federal appeals court Saturday blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area amid ongoing protests at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities that the Trump ...

A federal judge granted a request to temporarily block a National Guard deployment in Chicago, saying the move violates the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge April Perry ruled the Trump ...

The Chicago Blackhawks logo is a representation of Chief Black Hawk, a former leader of the Sauk tribe in Illinois. The legacy of the chief was honored by the Hawks founder and first owner, Maj.